Ocean Odyssey Week 2: Coastal (1 of 2)

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Goal:

Introduce coastal areas (tide pools)
Focus on

• sea stars
• sandy beaches

Introduce simple machines

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Resources:

"Let's Take A Trip to a Tide Pool" by Furgang, Kathy
-- available through the Wake County Public Library as an ebook you can read online if you have a library card:
http://www.nclive.org/cgi-bin/nclsm?url=%22http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=20162&site=ehost-live%22

California Tidepools -- free iphone/ipad app -- photos only
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/california-tidepools/id497631839?mt=8
For next week: Watch Magic Schoolbus Takes a Dive!

Book:

Pictures to color from the 3 pigs?

(What if the 3 little pigs built a rocket?
3 little pigs built a rocket cartoon

Worksheet for kids to circle the simple machines as the book is read:

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AGENDA

MAGIC Schoolbus
Name / beach ball
Videos of tidal pool -- print out the photos they can do then or take home
Color a picture of something to put on a tidal pool poster

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At 1:00: Start showing Magic School Bus: Goes to Mussel Beach (21 minutes)
http://www.youtube.com/watch/?v=6mNG6WqtXCQ

Names
Get to know names part 2:
Coastal -- so throw beach ball around and name names for each throw... be at the table!

My name is.... Linda and my favorite tide pool animal is... anemones
What's your favorite tide pool animal, Jaime? <toss ball>

Draw out the zones
http://www.ncrcn.org/me/Projects/Tidepool/

Tide pool sing along
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4e6O_nKTOI&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Tide pools (2 1/2 minutes -- with titles about what you're seeing)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orXzYO_OWWw&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Things I found at the tide pools (2 1/2 min -- photos, music, labels)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLta-YV0D2I&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Some of the things that happen with the animals on the tidal pools
http://dsc.discovery.com/tv-shows/planet-earth/videos/shallow-seas-kelp-forest.htm

STAR FISH
How starfish move (1 min)
http://youtu.be/Q8uLwhoDlQI
Close up of a star fish moving from someone's aquarium (45 seconds)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&feature=fvwp&v=cec4YPXBnXk

BARNACLES
PERFECT: Overview of barnacles and about how they live (1 min)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49Aev-HA9R4&feature=related
Barnacle feeding (30 seconds) narrated
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=fvwp&NR=1&v=1nbQIu60bHg
Barnacle feeding (20 seconds) -- not narrated
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49Aev-HA9R4&feature=related

ANEMONE
Bill Nye (all about the word!):
http://www.youtube.com/watch/?v=9XcSDNc-Px8

SAND DOLLARS
Great 1 minute overview:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jb_W0i2lti0&list=UUY6cmRbKhM6bvPui248xeAg&index=7&feature=plcp


Color things or create some things out of clay for the tidal pool poster?

• paint
• water color crayons
• pencil crayons
• scissors
• paper

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Have a snack... while reading


The 3 Pigs and the Scientific Wolf

Gears:
Read 3 Little Pigs
--> Have them circle the simple machines they hear on the worksheet while they hear the story




Do EdHeads as a group:
http://edheads.org/activities/simple-machines/


Talk about gears
Examples of gears
--> number of teeth
--> brad onto grid



Create a "wolf catcher" with gears -- either with LEGO or cut out of foam and glued onto paper
(The wolf catcher above is a zipline wolf catcher....)